Rachael Sacerdoti Q&A<\/p>\nWhat are your priorities when it comes to working out?<\/p>\n
“At the moment, my focus is muscle building. But it does keep changing. I want to build muscle and make sure my body fat doesn’t get out of control.”<\/p>\n
What type of workouts do you do? <\/p>\n
“I do dumbbell workouts and gym workouts as well with machines, kettlebells and bands. I do a very similar workout over four weeks with a little bit of change to keep things interesting and I try to progress with those exercises over the four weeks. Every four weeks I change up the exercises to bring in different muscle groups.”<\/p>\n
“Two times a week, I’ll train my lower-body because they’re my largest muscles so that’s where I’ll get bang for my buck. Also because the lower body is very important in terms of mobility and stability.”<\/p>\n
“I keep my cardio low-impact for the most part. I do uphill walking on the treadmill, the stairmaster or bodyweight HIIT workouts. I go out for a run sometimes but I don’t push myself. I’ll do 5K at a steady speed or go on a long walk \u2013 80% of the time my cardio is low-intensity.”<\/p>\n
How often do you aim to work out each week?<\/p>\n
“On average, I train five days a week.”<\/p>\n
Do you usually hit this target?<\/p>\n
“My absolute minimum is four times a week. In the middle of the week if my body is too tired, then I’ll take Wednesday off and move my workout to a Saturday.”<\/p>\n
What time of the day do you workout?<\/p>\n
“I always workout in the morning because that’s my routine. If I had to do a late workout it would never get done, between my kids, pick-up, drop-offs, cooking, work \u2013 I’d never do it.”<\/p>\n
What’s your number one tip for someone looking to develop an effective exercise routine?<\/p>\n
“I have the 10-minute rule with my clients\u2014even if you don’t want to go to the gym, just do 10 minutes and in 10 minutes if you’re still not convinced you should be there, then leave. But 99% of the time after 10 minutes you’ll feel like you should be there and you’ll want to carry on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Workout Diaries, a new series where we ask expert trainers to talk us through what a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-101410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}